In the new reality of terrorism and propaganda on social media, the value of journalism as a means of separating news from noise has never been more vital. With militant groups using social media as...
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Chris Hamilton
social media editor BBC News
Chris Hamilton is social media editor at BBC News. leading on strategy and best practice as well as audience engagement activity and the industry-leading User Generated Content Hub. He started out as a reporter at the UK's main news agency, the Press Association, before joining the BBC in 2000.
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Younger audiences are discovering and consuming news with very different habits than older generations. This panel will explore how content is being packaged differently to reach these audiences t...
We all need to be the first to run social and user-generated content when breaking news happens. That is the nature of a competitive news business. But what about asking for permission, or even wait...
Do online comments on news sites have a future, or will we see more and more news organisations closing their comment boards and handing all their conversations over to Facebook and social media? Is...